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Texas Code of Criminal Procedure - Article 16.09. Testimony Reduced To Writing

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Art. 16.09. [253] [300] [288] TESTIMONY REDUCED TO 
WRITING.  The testimony of each witness shall be reduced to writing 
by or under the direction of the magistrate, and shall then be read 
over to the witness, or he may read it over himself.  Such 
corrections shall be made in the same as the witness may direct;  
and he shall then sign the same by affixing thereto his name or 
mark.  All the testimony thus taken shall be certified to by the 
magistrate.  In lieu of the above provision, a statement of facts 
authenticated by State and defense counsel and approved by the 
presiding magistrate may be used to preserve the testimony of 
witnesses.

Acts 1965, 59th Leg., vol. 2, p. 317, ch. 722, eff. Jan. 1, 1966.             

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